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baron arrived but recently from America,
and had only been in Paris three days
when he was incontinently seized and
carried off to his present abode at Vauves.
A storm raised by his friends resulted in
an Interpolation in the chambers by NJ.
Gaillard, deputy for Vancluse, who, as
his name implies, is very 'lively" fell
low. He wanted to know, you know.
from the mouth of the minister of the In
terror how it all came about. Was not
the baron possessed Of enormous wealth
likely to excite covetous desires amongst
his relations? M. Fallieres, minister of
the interior, read medical certificates at
testing insanity, and concluded by bring
ing in new insanity incarceration bill
abrogating that of 1888. Next morning a
letter purporting to come from an
American lady appeared in GdIigranis
Messenger, in which it was stated that
the baron's sister, the Princesse de
Sagan, had caused her brother to
be kidnapped. She had already at
tempted to get her son, the Prince de
Talleyrand Perigord, placed in mad
house, but failed, and judgment of one
of the Paris tribunals obliged her to al
low him 1000 francs per annum. The
fair writer affirmed that the baron was
not mad, but might go mad if kept where
he was. Later ON learned body of men
yclept the Medico-P Psychological Soci-
ETY., sat and reported on the question.
DR.. Motel said he visited the baron at his
aunt's residence. He was terribly ex-
cited and used his stick freely on the fur
niture and knick-knacks he cursed
everybody, declaring himself the clev-
crest man in existence, who was
oh to rio Ar,nnr tn
lady worth $4OO,OOO,O00 in hard
cash. He intended to kill his aunt and
mother Then came a relation of the
polite way in which he was received by
the President of the republic, as also by
his holiness the Pope. The baron had
walked several thousand miles with his
mother and another lady (both dead.
DIR. Motel thought it well to order his re-
moval to the asylum kept by DR.. Falret,
at Vauves, and he was taken thither.
Seilliere had written his correct geneal-
ogy, as follows: Jupiter and Juno,
Confucius, Solomon, &c. There arises
in the desert scion called Mahomet,
from whom l am descended. l am the
grandson of Don Juan of Austria. ua-
homet had one legitimate daughter, my
grandmother, the Queen of the tir-
tuous." Dr. Motel added that in
lucid moments the baron would than
his attendants for the care of him.
After this testimony timid person might
feel some apprehension if he found the
baron sitting opposite him in train in
one Of the tunnels near Monaco. But
there are certain jealous believers
amongst his friends who persist that he
is the victim of persecution, and shortly
after his arrival at DR.. Falret's institu-
ton an attempt at rescue was made. In
the dead of night carriage wheels made
a crunching noise near the patients
quarters, situate in a brick building near
the entrance. Several men descended,
and two made an attempt to open the
door. The appearance of the warders
alarmed them, however, and they de-
camped. Five men, armed with six
shooters, have since kept guard over the
mailman.
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md fatigue. The bride had seen the

md fatigue. The bride had seen the
thorniest side of African travel.
Someways southwest of Lake Bang
weolo the party, deserted by their port
ers, were attacked by fierce tribe. Ont
of the white servants was killed, and the
rest of the expedition barely escaped
with their lives. Without coverings tt
shield them from the chill night air
without a single vessel In which to cool
their food, without medicines or any
part of their equipment except a few
guns and cartridges, Mr.. and Mrs. Holul
reached friends 400 miles south man,
weeks after the disaster. Their feet wer
bleeding, their shoes hardly held together
and in the last few days they were barely
able to travel six miles day. They hat
lived on the game they found, and mucl
of the time they dared not fire a gun
within hearing of native villages. Holul
was suffering from fever, but his wife
in spite of hardships as terrible as al
African explorer ever survived, was il
good health from first to last. 1t may b,
foolhardy for the women of Europe and
America to incur the dangers of African
travel, but they have amply shown tina
they can pass safely through fiery test
of courage and endurance from whicl
even men Snrlnk.
-Four years ago young woman of fine
education and many attractive qualities
asked the Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society in Boston to include her in q
party of missionaries they were sending
to Equatorial Africa. The society de
clined to do so, because they were not
sending unmarried women to new and
untried mission fields. Having money
of her own the young lady decided to go
to Africa on her own responsibility, and
it happened in the course of events that
she married a member of the self-same
missionary band she had vainly tried to
join. The other day Tread bright, CHEEKY
letter she had written from her new home
at Bihe, on the southern edge of the Cen
trail African plateau. There this New Eng
land girl is living with her young husband
in matched cottage teaching black girls
and boys how to read, and instructing
the women in the arts of cookery and
sewing. Believing she is doing good
and useful work she is apparently happy
and content in the isolation of her Afri-
can home. Not few such women
are now scattered through the mission sta
tions of Equatorial Africa. Like Mrs.
Livingstone, whose body lies buried on
the banks of the Zambesi, many of these
women will never leave the land where
they have become voluntary exiles. But
they have friends in every country who
will not cease to honor them for the part
they are taking in the great work of
retaining savage Africa.
&c. ADAMS.
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BURDErTE ON FATrED CALVES.
The Prodigal of 1887 Compared With His
Scriptural Prototype.

The Prodigal of 1887 Compared With His
Scriptural Prototype.
No, my son, it isn't that the world has
grown hard-hearted; it isn't that we aren't
just as glad to-day to see the prodigal come
back, and just as lovingly anxious to well
come him home as ever was anybody in the
fifteenth chapter of Luke. 1t is the manner
in which the prodigal son of 1887 frequently
returns that throws the wet blanket over the
festivities of the welcome. When he comes
down the road with his hat hanging on his
ear and his hands in his pocket; when he
kicks the faithful old house dog as he lounges
in at the gate; when he calls his father
Gov nor and the hired man "Cull - when
he wants to know whats for dinner2"
before he has been in the house fifteen min
utes; when he gives his elder brother two
the hayseed out of his hair; when he
throws himself into the easiest chair in the
house, perches his feet on the window-sill
and announces that he'll "take tub before
dinner" when he comes back with gener-
ally forgiving air of good-fellowship about
him, and tries to make all the rest of the
family very easy and reassured-then it is,
my son, that your father longs to run and
meet you while you are yet great way off,
and fall upon your neck with plow-line
and welt you into a state of becoming
humility and penitence by the time you are
able to take off your hat to the bound boy,
and crawl up the front steps to ask your
brother to shake hands with you. Good
people are just as glad to-day as ever they
were, my son, to see the prodgal come home,
but it does rattle them a little to see him
come in a hack and ask them to pay the
driver and send for his baggage
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THE WEARING OF FLOWERS.
Various Ways Adopted by Bellies to Keep
Their blossoms Fresh.


Their Blossoms Fresh.
The wearing of flowers is more than ever
the fashion this season, and some of the fe-
male devices for disposing them about their
persons are decidedly amusing. One young
woman in the park this spring appeared on
the drive every day with her picturesque
wide hat trimmed with fresh flowers of q
different variety each day. The effect was
bizarre, but rather pretty on the whole. A
pretty little fancy of the girls who have been
in the country during June has been to tie
punches of buttercups or daisies to the long
handles of their parasols with broad satin
ribbons to match the stuff of which the par
asols are made.
There is the greatest difference in the way
I'm which women wear flowers. The noted
belle to whom Tilden left 100000 is the
envy of all her female acquaintance from
the fact that she can wear a great cluster Of
roses at her bosom the entire evening, and
at the end they are almost as fresh and beau
tiful as when she put them on. This is
partly due to the fact that she always chooses
roses not quite half blown, and at that stage
they have more vitality than at any other I;
but it is still more because she is one of the
women who can wear any flower without
fading it. Upon some flower willis in
stantly, whether from the greater amount OF
bodily heat radiated or not has never been
ascertained but the superstition on the sub
ject is that to wilt flowers quickly is sign
of the early death of the wearer and their
preservation proof of longevity.
One flower lover has had small India
rubber tube made and filling this with
water she inserts the stem of her roses, the
mouth of the tube closes tightly around
them, and she pins it among the laces of her
corsage, which conceal the tube. In this
way she succeeds in wearing great punches
OF Jacqueminots to the theatres hot nights
and keeping them perfectly fresh. This
method, however is subject to accidents
and is more or less clumsy.-New York World.
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glory of achievements in which their
wives have large, perhaps an equal
sharef Sir Samuel Baker Is called the
discoverer of the great Albert Nyanza,
but the eyes of his blonde wife rested
upon its broad expanse as soon as his
own, and together they reached its
white, sandy beach and drank of its re-
freshing waters. There are few perils
of African travel that Lady Baker has
not known. Deadly swamp fevers have
wrecked the frame of this delicately nur-
tured English woman, and once she came
near dying of sunstroke. African chiefs
usually ask explorers why they left their
wives behind. To Sir Samuel, on the
other hand, they sometimes suggested
with great GOODNESS that if he would
give them his wife in exchange for sew
eral of theirs 1t would be pleasing ar
rangement. The huts in which Lady
Baker was often compelled to sleep
were sometimes so small that it was
more convenient to dress her hair in the
open air. Her hair was very long, and
the sight of it always drew a crowd.
Blonde hair over three feet long was to
the untutored African mind as great a
freak of nature as Barnum's two-headed
girl.
Once Lady Baker, by her tact and
quick wit, probably saved her husbands
life at critical moment when he was
confronted by some mutinOus soldiers.
The brave little woman suddenly discov-
vered that the great black fellows would
obey her stern command, though Sir
Samuel had lost all control of them. On
two other occasions she rescued him
from assaults of quite different nature.
Near the Albert Nyanza, Sir Samuel
gave their freedom to number of poor
women he had rescued from the slave
dealers. One of the poor half nude girls,
with face beaming with smiles, rushed
up to her deliverer, threw her arms
around his neck, and, while her CASTOR
oily ringlets hung over his face and
dripped upon his shoulders, showered
kisses upon his lips. Lady Baker, who,
her husband naively remarks, did not
seem to enjoy the performance any bet
ter than he did, called some of the camp
men to extricate the half -smothered gen
tleman from his dilemma A precisely
similar incident occurred during their
travels in Abyssinia. 1t appears that
the poor girls imagined that the white
man could have no motive to set them
free except to take them as his wives.
They thought they were his wives, and
had perfect right to be affectionate.
When Mrs. Pringle travelled up the
Zambesi, five years ago, the sight of a
white woman in long skirts so frightened
the nude damsels she met that at first
sight they fled into the bush as fast as
their legs could carry them. Her hus-
band is an English merchant, who had
occasion to visit the region of Lake
Nyassa In canoe propelled by native
paddlers, who were clad only in loin
cloth, Mrs. Pringle and her husband
journeyed far up the Zambesi and Shire
riNnrC N a tho han,,tiE,1l lr,i. ri
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braved its fevers and suffered in its
jungles. The wives of well-to-do mer-
chants have entered the savage wilder
ness of the great lake region; and the
wives of explorers have buried them
selves for years in the depths of Africa
ready to share any fortune that fate had
in store for their husbands. Many
books are full of the adventures of
white men in the dark continent. 1t is
the purpose of this article to narrate
the experiences of white women who
have witnessed the unfolding of some of
Africa's profoundest mysteries.
The story of Alexandrine Times
travels in Africa is unsurpassed in
pathos and romantic interest Here was
a young and beautiful woman, one of
the richest heiresses in Holland, the
daughter of Dutch baroness, an espe-
cial favorite of the Queen, in whose
young heart the love of adventure and
burning desire to add to geographical
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knowledge grew until they became a
consuming passion. Turning her back
upon her brilliant prospects at home
she became, when twenty-five years old,
an African explorer. Accompanied by
her mother and aunt, with ten Dutch
female servants, retinue of men ser
wants, Egyptian soldiers and negro sail
ors, 200 souls in all, with the co.npletest
equipment money could buy, she set out
from Khartoum for the Upper Nile soon
after Spoke had discovered the source of
the great river. Travelling on steamer
provided by the brother of the Khedive,
with four Nile boats carrying her bag
gage and native escort, she visited the
great hunting grounds of the slave cap
tors, passed through the deadly swamps
of the Upper Nile, and, after a journey
of thousand miles, the longest made
up to that time on the upper river, she
returned to Khartoum to refit her expe
dition.
Amid all her subsequent wanderings
in the swampy, feverish region of the
Bahr ell Ghazal afiluent of the Nile, many
hundreds of miles south of Khartoum,
amid scenes of suffering and death among
her followers, Alexandrine Time kept
stout heart and an unwavering purpose
to devote her whole life to African ex-
ploration. In those savage regions her
mother died in her arms, and in the bit
terness of her grief Alexandrine for a
time secluded herself in the solitude of
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Premonitions Of Death.

A young woman employed as a domestic
by Denver family married a private sol
der in the regular army year before, and
Immediately after the wedding returned to
her service, while her husband was sent out
to Fort Union, in New Mexico. One after
noon, while sitting in the kitchen, she heard
a tapping at the window, and on looking up
saw the face of her husband there. The APP
partition remained for a minute without
speaking and then slowly faded away. The
young woman ran screaming into the pres
ence of the family. related the strange ex-
perience to them and tainted. Later in the
day she received a telegram from the fort
announcing that her husband had died Of
fever the day before.-St. Louis Giobe-D Demo
erat.
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see. In her big canoe Mrs. Pringle
travelled with greater comfort than
might be imagined. PlanBs covered
one end of the canoe upon which
mattresses were placed. A reed canopy,
from which hung mosquito netting, was
built over ALL and mats could be lowered
on all sides whenever the lady desired
perfect seclusion. In this trip Mrs.
Pringle saw one of the greatest elephant
districts in Africa, rivers swarming with
hippopotami and crocodiles, and thou
sands of women who terribly disfgure
themselves by boring holes in their
upper lips, in which they insert large
stones. Her gloves excited much COM
ment. One inquisitive chief, who saw
her with veil over her face, wanted to
know how it happened that she was black
when her husband was white, and also
why she wore boots ON her hands.
Few tales of suffering in savage lands
are more pathetic than those of the igno-
rant white servants who have known little
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OF the vicissitudes of travel in Africa until
in the pitiless clutches of some Jungle
depth they have sighed in vain for their
native land. The poor Dutch girl, Miss
, Times maid, who, amid the marshes of
Bahr ell Ghazal, kept crying as she wrung
her hands: "Oh, why did leave my own
Holland" was destined to perish in tina,
savage land of whose manifold perils she
had never dreamed before she was hope
lessly involved in them.
Over two years ago Emil Holub, who
wore the laurels of the successful ex-
plorer, led to the altar beautiful Wen
nese 1t was known that his young bride
was to share with him the perils of
his future labors in Africa. Full OF
hope and enthusiasm, the happy couple
sailed for Cape Town and then made
their way north to explore the sources
of the Zambesi and the Congo. For
once Holub's good fortune has de-
serted him. When he and his pretty
wife babe goodbye to civilization they
had an equipment worth $4,000. A few
weeks ago they returned in rags, the:
mission unfulflled, stripped of all
resources, and almost dead from hunger
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The WAYS of Gothamites.

1.-THE people of New York are not very
sociable, are they ?" said Western man ad-
dressing an acquaintance who lived in the
East. 'Well, l don't know but they are,
although they may be little peculiar in
that respect. For several years I had my
One day fellow came in and asked if my
name was ]. w. McFiddleton. l told him
it was and then, after a few moments
silence, he said: My Office is just across the
hall, and ever since 1 saw your sign several
years ago have been intending to drop in
and see you. | am your brother, you know,
and-well how are you getting along any
way?' Yes" continued the Eastern m an
'they are a trifle peculiar, but after you get
in with them you find them very sociable."
"A TkansdW Traveller
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her tent. She discovered several rivers
which later travellers have fully explored
Her naturalist, DIR. Heughlin, has en-
balmed the fruits of these journeys in
one of the most interesting of African
books of exploration. The two expedi-
tons cost Miss Time 100000 She had
spent three years in the Soudan. Soon
after she organized an expedition which
in cost, splendor and daring was to
eclipse her previous exploits. She set
out from Tripoli to cross the Sahara and
explore the Mohammedan countries
south of it to the Nile. Her queenly
fortune, however, could not shield her
from the fanatical hatred of the Wild
Saharan tribes. She was shot to death
in the desert by the Touareqs, the young
est, fairest, richest woman who ever en-
tered savage wilderness.
Why are men honored with all the
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CAMDEN, N. j.
Dear Sr-What is the correct form of an
invitation when a marriage occurs in the
afternoon? DoUBr.
For afternoon weddings the hour of the
ceremony should be followed by the letters
"P. NJ" which is the only ornament the in
vitation wears to distinguish 1t from a morn
ing specimen. The invitation should proceed
from the BRIDES parents, and should reach
the invitee in the form of card bearing the
following, neatly engraved: "Mr. and Mrs.
Blank request your presence at the marriage
of their daughter, Mary Jane, to Charles
James Rafferty,, at P. M. ON Thursday,
August A." If the girl is not called Mary
Jane, some other name may be used. The
same may be said of the other names in this
sample. The old form of invitation issued
by the groom-"Come around at 8, and see
me capture a mother-in-law''-is no longer
en- regle. Neither is the custom of spelling
presence" presents" sanctioned by good
society, although the latter sense is generally
understood VIM. III. SIvITER.
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A NEST OF THIEVES,
How French Bank Was systematically
Robbed by Some of its Officers.

How a French Bank Was systematically
Robbed by Some of its Officers.
Relative to the arrest of NJ. Mouvet at
Constantinople for having pillaged the
Banque Parisienne, of which he was man.
ager, of about 5000, 0OOf., it is instructive to
note that the bank contained veritable
nest of thieves. Mouvet had as accomplices
M. Auguste Louis, director of the branch es-
adjustment situated in the Rue de Rennes !;
M. Bonaventure, cashier at the head office
of the bank in the Rue Chauchat, and M.
Kuhl, chief of the book keeping department
These men all being in the league, the mode
of procedure was easy. When NJ. Mouvet
wanted money M. Auguste Louis warned
the administration of the bank that he had
consented to advance the sum to imaginary
individuals on the security of stock and
shares deposited with the bank. The cashier.
NJ. Bonaventure, certified that he had re-
ccived the stock in deposit, and had the
money representing the simulated loan sent
to the branch house, Rue de Rennes
When the inventory was made M. Kuhl,
chief of the bookkeeping department, under
took to do what was necessary.-LOndon
Standard.
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QUIPs.

There is usually sequel to every event il
you seek well for it.
What your uncle advances on your over
coat may be considered clothes shave.
1t was probably little fawn which said,
Call me early, mother deer"
A contemporary, discussing the degree of
Rebekah, speaks of women Odd Fellows"
Would not "old maids have covered the
ground?
The proprietor of a Bowery restaurant
sued one of his waiter girls because she ate
two of his pies. One would think that the
crime carried its own punishment with it.
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Tho Lardar Was EMMY.

Hotel Guest-I don't believe in this modern
custom oftipping. l want you to understand
that. Waiter-Pse been to school, sab, an
happen to know there amt nothin' modern
about it, sab. The custom is as old as civil
cation, sab. 80, come now" Fac, sab.
learned in history, sab, that one time rich
man like you named Caligula went some
where to supper, an it cost him $400, 600 be-
fore he got through, sab. BY the way, sab,
all the things you ordered is out sah.-
Omaha World
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IN LIGHTER VEIN.
HE misunderstood.


Sympathizlng Anarchist Ito one of the
condemned)-H are you feeling2
Condemned-Blue!
20, cheer up. You may be free yet. While
there's life there's hope"
That's no comfort"
mo comfort To have hope"
80. excuse me. 1 thought you said While
there's life there's SOAP"
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Chunks of information for tho Benefit of
the Curious.
RAILWAY, N. J

RAILWAY, N. J.
Dear Sir-What is nicotine? ]. +. D.
Nicotine is kind of poison with which
manufacturers of Havana cigars soak cab
bage leaves to make them taste like tobacco.
1t takes its name from Old Nick, an individ-
ual who spends large portion of his time in
the hottest place known to theology. An
allusion to this connection between tobacco
and his Satanic majesty is found in the old
poem beginning:
Tobacco is an Indian weed;
1t was the Devil who sOwed the seed,
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(COpVrfOhted, 1871

The patient wives of humble mission
aries are not the only white women who
have visited Central Africa. Ladies of
aristocratic lineage have been there.
Women of enormous wealth have